Modifies a noun

• appearance: So they tend to run pictures of distinctive looking people more often than of people with a nondescript appearance.

• town: Home for him is Bindura, a nondescript rural town to the north of Harare, Zimbabwe's capital.

• building: The large, rather nondescript building on the opposite side of the road once housed Bishop's Stortford's ' new ' telephone exchange.

• house: It is a nondescript house, the only give-away is if his Rolls Royce is there with his name on the numberplate.

• place: Good old GB is in a fairly nondescript 12th place, so nothing changed there.

• pub: That to play in a nondescript pub pretending to have a field day?

Modifying Another Word

• fairly: Crazy amount of money to spend on a fairly nondescript 80s bike with little historical or other significance.

• rather: From here to the end of the road on the other side of town, the 244 cuts a rather nondescript path through Feltham.

• pretty: In fact the whole of the first half was pretty nondescript with goalmouth action at a premium.

• otherwise: This is important in terms of it acting as a community focus in an otherwise nondescript residential environment.

• deliberately: He names them the Auxiliary Units, a deliberately nondescript title.

• somewhat: The middle pick-up doesn't seem to be a popular choice, due to its somewhat nondescript sound.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: Although the content of the Chancellor's speech seemed fairly nondescript this year, as always the devil is in the detail!